Portable MRI machine from MIT is 1000x smaller, faster, and cheaper. My PhD work was published as the cover story of Science Translational Medicine (full paper pdf here).. We developed a portable, non-invasive hydration sensor using magnetic resonance that is 1000x smaller, faster, and cheaper than traditional MRI machines. This work has important applications for patients with kidney …

Portable NMR Propagator Non-spatially resolved sap flow measurementspatially resolved sap flow measurement. Xylem sap flow: red, stationary water: blue. TR 2.5 s, TE 3.5 ms, NECH 32, 8 averages, SW 200 kH ∆20 δ4 G 063T/ NMR-CUFF around young, 2 m tall poplar tree SW 200 z; ms, ms, max0.63m. Scan time ~11 min.

In order to relate changes in leaf WC to changes in leaf water potential (Ψ leaf) as measured by means of the Scholander pressure chamber (Scholander et al., 1964), NMR plant sensor readings can be combined with pressure-volume (p-v) curve analysis .

Portable NMR Sensor Detects Fatty Liver Disease and Fibrosis in Mice. Fatty liver disease is a condition in which fat builds up in the liver, which …

Portable NMR Sensor unveiled. By System Administrator 12th April 2005 12:00 am 15th December 2015 8:00 pm. US security experts may soon be getting a valuable new tool for identifying the chemical constituents in suspicious substances. A portable device makes it possible for the first time ever to take high-resolution NMR spectroscopy – one of ...

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) technique is a powerful analytical tool in determining the presence of bacterial contaminants in complex biological samples. In this paper, a portable NMR-based (pNMR) biosensor and assay to detect the foodborne bacteria Escherichia coli O157:H7 is reported. It uses antibody-functionalized polymer-coated magnetic nanoparticles as …

The mobile nuclear magnetic resonance sensor (NMR) allows for the non-invasive, real-time measurement of water status and dry matter accumulation over seed development. Due to the portable and compact nature of the sensor it may be used to analyse components of a whole fixed plant, for instance a developing fruit (see Windt et al. 2011).

[45] Blümich B, Haber A, Casanova F, et al. Noninvasive depth profiling of walls by portable nuclear magnetic resonance[J]. Anal Bioanal Chem, 2010, 397(7): 3 117 3 125. [46] Capitani D, Brilli F, Mannina L, et al. In situ investigation of leaf water status by portable unilateral nuclear magnetic resonance[J].

By using a compact, low-field portable NMR sensor instead of a fully fledged high-end MRI scanner we lose the ability to visualize in exactly what tissue water is lost or taken up, but make up for that by the fact that the device is portable, suitable for use on site in the field or forest, and can obtain data with a high temporal resolution ...

The authors of this Science paper applied the ex-situ technique in a portable single-sided sensor device, which, for these experiments, was configured for high resolution NMR spectroscopy. Two concentric U-shaped permanent rare earth magnets (Neodymium-Iron-Boron) were arranged to create a magnetic a "sweet spot" about seven millimeters above the active magnet surface.

SMART's new portable Raman leaf-clip sensor is a useful tool in precision agriculture allowing early diagnosis of nitrogen deficiency in plants, which can …

A portable nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) sensor with an adjustable 'clamp' structure is constructed for the noninvasive measurement of the aging status of silicone rubber insulators used in the high-voltage power transmission. The Carr–Purcell–Meiboom–Gill sequence was employed to record the 1H NMR transverse relaxation curves of silicone rubber insulators with …

I contributed to the design of a NMR/NQR spectrometer about 20 years ago. An A/D ISA board and a Pulse Programming ISA board (two of three required) and the packaging for a FedEx-sized scanner for a portable Contraband Detector (of hard drugs and high explosives). Two US patents. We won an R&D 100 Award in 1995 for it. Glad to help if needed.

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The Phyto-NMR sensor is a portable NMR device that employs basic relaxometry to non-invasively measure the amount of liquids in fruits, stems or leaves. The sensor is suitable for use in the greenhouse and the lab. It is typically used to monitor growth dynamics of plant parts in response to environmental conditions such as drought, salt, or ...

Another portable NMR sensor with a novel one-sided access magnet design, termed NMR-MOLE (mobile lateral explorer), has been developed by Manz et al. . This sensor is very efficient in terms of sensitivity and penetration depth. The magnet array is based on a barrel magnet operating at 3.3 MHz with a central magnet positioned to provide a ...

Homeland security experts may soon be getting a valuable new tool for identifying the chemical constituents in suspicious substances. A portable device makes it possible for the first time ever to take high-resolution NMR spectroscopy -- one of the principal tools for chemical analysis -- out of the laboratory and into the field for use on samples of any size.

In Situ Investigation of Leaf Water Status by Portable Unilateral Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. ... can be used as an NMR plant sensor to continuously, quantitatively and non-invasively monitor ...

A portable NMR sensor to measure dynamic changes in the amount of water in living stems or fruit and its potential to measure sap flow Tree Physiol., 35 ( 2015 ), pp. 366 - 375, 10.1093/treephys/tpu105

The LI‑6400XT has two absolute CO2 and two absolute H2O non-dispersive infrared gas analyzers that provide superior performance in a field-portable system. The gas analyzers are in the sensor head, which allows for real-time measurements with leaf-level environmental feedback control. This is not possible when analyzers are in the console.

Figure 5: Absorption spectrum of fluorescein measured using the FS5 Spectrofluorometer. A much more advanced version of a spectrophotometer is a transient absorption spectrometer, which can measure the evolution of the absorption spectrum with time and is essential for looking at temporary species generated through chemical reactions or short lived photoexcited states.

Abstract: Although the portable NMR spectrometers usually have lower signal-to-noise (SNR) and resolution compared to superconducting nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometers, they show great advantages in more practical applications, such as fast on-site testing.In recent years, the rapid advances in hardware and experimental methods improved portable NMR spectrometers …

A portable 1H NMR spectrometer has been applied to whole plants in situ, i.e. in climate rooms and in a greenhouse, to study plant water relations under these conditions.

We report construction of a portable nuclear magnetic resonance sensor with a single-sided open probe design. The resulting magnetic field inhomogeneity is compensated by a pulse sequence that takes advantage of parallel inhomogeneity in the applied radio frequency field. We can thereby acquire fluorine-19 spectra of liquid fluorocarbons with 8 parts per million resolution, …

status.Portable NMR instruments, withlow-field mag-nets, have been designed such that the investigations made possible by NMR relaxation technology can now be extended to field conditions (Raich and Blu¨mer, 2004). Van As et al. (1994) applied a purposely built low-field portable 1H NMR instrument to provide

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The 2nd Annual Practical Applications of NMR in Industry Conference (PANIC) will be held February 3-5 in Charlotte, NC. An excellent scientific agenda has been put together ().The Brochure is available here.Take note of the early registration (January 10, 2014) and poster submission (December 20, 2013) deadlines.

Water Relations of the cereal leaf and grain as measured by means of a simple, portable NMR sensor . By Carel Windt. Year: 2012. OAI identifier: oai:juser.fz-juelich.de:128958 Provided by: Juelich Shared Electronic Resources. Download PDF: ...

The PSY1 Stem Psychrometer is a very powerful tool integrating all the ambient environmental parameters acting upon the plant such as solar radiation, temperature, humidity, wind speed and water availability into a single continuously measurable variable.

The authors of this Science paper applied the ex-situ technique in a portable single-sided sensor device, which, for these experiments, was configured for high resolution NMR spectroscopy.

A portable NMR sensor to measure dynamic changes in the amount of water in living stems or fruit and its potential to measure sap flow. Carel W Windt Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, IBG-2: Plant Sciences, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany

This NMR analysis is described in a paper presented in Physique and in the following Science article ("High-Resolution NMR Spectroscopy with a Portable Single-Sided Sensor" by J. Perlo, V. Demas, F. Casanova, C. A. Meriles, J. Reimer, A. Pines, and …

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The sensor array was then tested with ten plant volatiles, including three green leaf volatiles ((Z)-3-hexenal, 1-hexenal and (E)-2-hexenol), two …